How to Make Glitter Pumpkins

Glitter pumpkins are a cute activity for young children for the autumn months. Children will be able to cut, decorate, and hang their pumpkin when finished.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Orange Construction paper
• Elmer's glue
• Orange glitter
• Green pipe cleaner
• Scissors

1. Have pre-drawn shapes of pumpkins available for children to cut out on their own.

2. Cut out the individually drawn pumpkin with scissors.

3. Insert a hole at the top of the pumpkin stem with the green pipe cleaner. For added effect, wrap both lose ends of pipe cleaner around your finger a few times to make it curly.

4. Apply glue all over pumpkin cutout. For young children, they can use paint brushes to brush the paint all over making an even coating.

5. Sprinkle the glitter all over the pumpkin that has the glue. Shake as much possible.

6. When finished, carefully carry over to a trash can and shake off all of the excess glitter until no more glitter falls into the trash can.

7. Hang pumpkins on an art drying wrack or lay flat on a surface for drying. Takes up to 2 hours for glitter to dry onto glue, depending how much was applied at a time.

[jenng]

on 11/14/2009 Great article on How to Make Glitter Pumpkins 5*